For First Time, US Sanctions Kim Jong Un for Human Rights Abuses
Nike Ching
Last updated on: July 07, 2016 2:59 AM
STATE DEPARTMENT—
For the first time, the United States has put North Korea's leader on the U.S. sanctions list for human rights abuses.
Kim Jong Un is among nearly two-dozen entities and individuals placed on Washington's blacklist for their role in serious human rights violations, hunting down defectors or censorship in North Korea.
"We have identified 23 individuals and entities in our report, one of those individuals is Kim Jong Un, we have made the judgment that he is rather plainly, ultimately responsible for the actions of his regime including its repressive policies toward his own people," a senior U.S. official announced Wednesday.
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